#reflection

Tolu died. I don’t know how I’m supposed to feel about it. Guilty that I barely liked her or talked to her? Worried about who the next one’s going to be? mostly I’m just worried about getting a summer job.

In the calmest corners of our minds, silence often serves as a balm, healing wounds and offering solace when the world becomes too loud. It can be therapeutic, a canvas upon which we paint our deepest thoughts and meditations. However, silence is also the one thing we never wish to hear in respon...

I feel such an urge to tell you where I am, what I'm doing as I write this. Maybe because it paints a picture...? For one, my sister's cat had entered my bedroom, joining myself and the 200+ lbs. of dog in this room (I'll leave the number of dogs a mystery, for now...), and…

I thought the wildflowers would make a pretty sound But the waterfall was too loud To hear anything at all.

Well, what a year. A year that has been hard for us all, a global struggle. When I put this into perspective, my issues which have been brought to light this year don't seem so bad. So instead of making a post on New Years Eve which goes over simply the negative - despite most…

In life we need to see patterns. Something bad happened to us so something good will happen because life has balance. We need this and search for it. Without finding some "reason" then we can't find out how to "prevent". We need to understand why something happened. I think this is why we have a&...

I woke this morning and hurriedly got ready for an appointment at the health pavilion twenty minutes south of where I live. My two hours of sleep was not sufficient, and I realized this after pressing ‘snooze’ at least twice and then having the typical ‘oh shit’ moment that occurs when one realiz...

You ever get the feeling your friends don't like you so much as just kinda tolerate you.

When I was 14 I had depression. Even as I slept I couldn't see clearly - for years I was blind in my dreams. I used Open Diary to clear my thoughts and improve my vision. This website calmed me on some of my roughest, loneliest days; I hope everybody that needs that solace finds…

  I think this is my fear.   Perhaps losing one's self is impossible. We're always changing and instead of worrying about losing yourself, maybe it's best to focus on embracing the person that is becoming. Letting go of the environment that was and accepting the world that is, along wit...